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Each year winds carry some 180 million tonnes of Saharan dust across the Atlantic. Around 28 million tonnes fall on the Amazon, fertilising the rainforest with phosphorus, and the plume regularly reaches the southern United States.
Amazing Maps
Each year winds carry some 180 million tonnes of Saharan dust across the Atlantic. Around 28 million tonnes fall on the Amazon, fertilising the rainforest with phosphorus, and the plume regularly reaches the southern United States.